The School News and Practical Educator Volume 15 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...Islands---the Short Horns and the Here-fords from old England herself and the Aberdeen Angus and ale Galloway from Scotland; each from its own sec-tion and each with its own distinct excellence. Who would not know these noble fellows and the land and the circumstances of their nativity? Heref0r(ls.--In western middle England an hundred and fifty years ago were large numbers of spotted red and white cattle with mottled faces and immense horns, generally drooping, known as Longhorns. They were much used for labor but about the time of our American Revolution they came to be much improved for beef, mainly by the genius and efforts of one Robert Bakewell, who was the first known improver and breeder of farm animals. As their improvement proceeded they gradu-ally assumed their present beautiful red color, with clear white faces and full white breasts and took on the name of the shire where they had been developed. They have 5 therefore been known as Herefords ever since, and no breed has ever been developed that can excel them on the range, that is, for making beef principally from grass. SIz0rih0rns.--While this was going on in middle England something else in the way of cattle improvement was in progress far to the n'ortheast in the shire of Dur-ham, and along the River Tees, which can be found on any good map of England. Here for an unknown time there had flourished a large kind of cattle, better milkers than the Longhorns ever were' and locally known as Teeswater cattle from the river whose richivalley pastures had sustained them. With the development of agricul-ture in England, commencing about 150 years ago, espe-cially encouraged by the "farmer king," George III, these cattle, like the Longhorns, 'were greatly...